Implementation Quotes

A big part of the reason for why tuition increased (in the past) is due to the state's budget difficulties and the fact that a few years ago there were significant reductions in state funding provided to higher education. Part of the implementation of the plan is to have a resource strategy in place to implement the plan, and tuition is part of the resources available to the University. - Daniel Layzell

[While Microsoft has gobbled up tons of market share in the volume-server market over the past few years, it has been dogged by the widely held notion that Windows can't support very large, enterprise-level implementations.] The oldest issue we've dealt with is scalability... Today we should be able to completely convince you that there is no job that is too big to run completely on the Microsoft platform. - Steve Ballmer

[The project is ongoing, with a phased implementation timetable.] We look at our entire market data framework as constantly evolving - there are newer types of securities and newer groups always adding to it - so it is not necessarily something that will ever be fully completed, ... If anything, it will just get more groups attaching to it, or attaching to a system that is fed by this security reference system. - John White

[Tech lobbyists are already sharpening their arguments.] I'm sure some states are eagerly watching what happens in Europe and may try to use the implementation as an excuse to say, Why can't we do the same thing in U.S.? ... But we think [the European VAT tax] should be a substantial concern to anyone interested in free trade and open markets. - Harris Miller

[Shire Pharmaceuticals, a global specialty pharmaceutical company, sought an RFID solution that would enable compliance with Wal-Mart requirements. The company selected Manhattan Associates' RFID solutions.] Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs... With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements. - Mike Chapman

[Palestinian officials said implementation of a cease-fire would take time.] It is a gradual process that will take some days... I hope the government of Israel will give this ... declaration of Chairman Arafat a chance to carry on and succeed. - Ahmed Tibi

[Other emerging technologies also bode well for more involved implementations of e-learning applications.] Games, simulations, and scenario-based learning -- you're going to see more and more of that... You're going to see more of what e-learning is supposed to be: better tools and technologies in the live classroom, more students and teachers online, and better self-paced activities. - Tom Kelly

[Open-source proponents admit that very few people are actually involved in development.] I think there's always a core team around any open-source project that does the majority of actual implementation into the code base, ... On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time. Most other projects are somewhere in between ? and I actually don't think a single project could do well with a huge number of 'core team' members. - Brian Behlendorf

[As commissioner, Yecke was a big supporter of the No Child Left Behind law, which requires schools to test students every year and slaps penalties on schools where students don't meet test score goals.] Right now, I don't see any resistance [to No Child Left Behind], ... I see acceptance. Implementation is taking place. Perhaps [educators] had once seen it as threatening, but once everything was in place, they found they could rise to the challenge. - Cheri Yecke

[Arafat said he received a call from Netanyahu on Monday.] He asked me for some days to delay implementation of what had been agreed upon, ... Yes. - Yasser Arafat